Norbertine Abby California Quotes

#1. Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.

Plato

#2. Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.

Pope John Paul II

#3. I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties ...

Salvador Dali

#4. On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.

Orson Pratt

#5. How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities? ... I never feel the four walls around the substance of the self, the core. I feel only space. Illimitable space.

Anais Nin

#6. I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same.

Georges Braque

#7. I called my friend Pari on the way home. "I need you to do my apt."
"I'm not that attracted to your apt."
"I think I'm being bugged."
"Like I am? Right now?

Darynda Jones

#8. Books were my friends," said Catherine, and cooled her cheek, which was red from the heat of cooking, on her wineglass. "I think I learned all my feelings from books. In them I loved and laughed and found out more than in my whole nonreading life.

Nina George

#9. Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

Anita Loos

#10. I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

Zoey Deutch

#11. How sad if we allow our hearts to wane
And obscure our joy with enduring pain
While all things, good or bad, indisputably go by
Like morning that transmutes in evening sky

Joan Marques

#12. If you are losing at a game, change the game.

Gregory Benford

#13. Life turned dragons to stone. Stars to ash, gold to coal.

H. Leighton Dickson

#14. We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument ... Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.

C.S. Lewis

#15. The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.

Jeb Bush